My personal theory is that the bribe target was General Mark Milley, since he was one of the main guys pushing the Army to speed up it's trials, and he was one of the first people to receive one of the newly adopted pistols.
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"Two years to test? What's a dead airman between buddies?"
Yeah, that's the same guy who famously was pushing for implementing critical race theory into the military, and who also told his counterpart in the PLA that he would ignore orders from the President if he deemed them too dangerous. I fucking hate this guy, I think he is guilty of treason and should face the corresponding punishment for treason. Too bad though, because he got preemptively pardoned by Biden before leaving office. Oops!
Yep he almost certainly received bribes from SIG as he also pushed the retarded XM25/XM7 and XM250 along with the retarded .277 Fury cartridge
Fucking dipshit fatass DEI worshipping retard.
They didn't realize the MIG-21 would be an absolute pain in the ass to deal with when they were taking off in a neighboring country with even shorter distance to airfields with it's own air intercept missions and could fly below the flight deck of what F-4 pilots were used to. It didn't help the radar systems at the time were primitive by modern standards (you had a horn antenna with a narrow antenna gain beam pattern) and the F-4 would have to point it nose at the target while maintain its own minimum speed against a fighter that could fly subsonic. The pilots would overshoot the MiG-21s and then put themselves at risk. By the end of the war, the F-4 had guns on board to deal with the dog fighting the MiG-21 pilots forced on them. The F-4 lasted up until the early 90s and the air doctrine the F-4 originally was suppose to do is now done by the F-15E. For those of you who don't know, the F-15E does the same role but even better because that AESA radar has a wide sweeping range and the pilot doesn't have to follow his target in a narrow cone
More like retarded RoEs, very little to no dissimilar ACM training until post 1968 and DOG SHIT AAMs until late 1968 onwards (after LBJ and his dumbass advisors stopped the bombing of N. Vietnam and ended A2A engagements). The F-4 radar got better as well, especially in the USN variants as did the AAMs.
The Mig-21s also didn't use their guns much and a decent amount the VPAF used didn't even have guns as the Soviets also deleted guns from mid production Mig-21s and their AAMs were even more dogshit than American ones.
The F-15A had a MUCH better radar than any USAF or USN F-4 and it kept getting upgraded and replaced over the decades.
The M7 is once again the Army having a bias for a theater of operation it no longer has to deal with just like the ACU camo of the 2000s. There is also no retrofitting of rifles, not like you can make them all 5.56 NATO. If the Army gives up on them, they have to reorder a bunch of new rifles which means a new trial, not like they send them back to Sig Sauer for updating like the F-4s did with McDonnell-Douglas.
The F-4E was a different jet than the F-4C/D/J/S
It has a different nose to accommodate the gun and the USN NEVER adopted a F-4 with an internal gun. They felt the pod was fine and didn't want to give up their better pulse Doppler radar in the F-4J and onwards plus their AIM-9s were always better than the USAF ones until the last few months of the Vietnam war. The USN and USAF shared the continually upgraded AIM-7.
Keep in mind the M7 (which is a shitrod) is not always going to be using the spicy level 4 piercing ammo. Using a varitey of ammo types means the range finder can give you a solution dialed into what you have loaded. Very cool, and very nice. Your DMR is likely using a lot more glass than the LPVO attached to the FC, and is going to be better trained, while 100% useful and I don't disagree with the utility there, you are going to get less of a jump in ability simply because the gap is already closed some.
A computer aiming solution is also going to let oogabooga grunt utilize his high mass high velocity round much farther out then what we are used to today. It isn't totally unreasonable that he could be taking potshots at targets 800yds away. Sounds like a fools errand, until you think about an individual suddenly effectively suppressing a heavy machine gun which is absolutely otherwise effectively engaging you at that distance.
Maybe for the very first shot. After that the stupid high recoil will fuck your sight picture and most Army grunts aren't getting any marksmanship training so they'll be breathing hard and jerking the shit out of their triggers so they might not even get the first shot on target..... With a $11k 2+lb optic that emits a laser every time it ranges that can be detected by a $1 sensor....
All of the Siggatry considered, I think a better way forward than Glock or S&W, or would be adopting the Walther PDP. Any PDP slide can go on any size PDP frame, shit it'll fit on Canik frames because the Turkshits ripped off the gun. The Pennsylvania State Police, FDACS, and the Brevard County Sheriff's Offices already issue it. It's honestly a better stock gun out of the box than any new Glock or M&P I've used.
Well no because Walthers are overpriced and their weird mutant trigger guard magazine releases are an affront to God.
I think the optic would be better served on an M4 or M16.
Even then it's an $11k optic that breaks under recoil.
Might as well just order some USMC VCOGs aka 1-8x rugged as shit LPVOs or 1-6x Vortex Razor Gen 2e / equivalents for a HELL of a lot less money.
Here are some semi relevant videos from the Thai-Cambodian conflict.
Thai troops have helmets, uniforms and handle their M-16s well.
Cambodians has flip flops and shitty Chinese drum mags.
Oh and a Thai bomb dropping drone killed itself by accident
